The decisions were taken at a cabinet meeting on Sunday morning.
Dr Reddy told the media that the cabinet expressed its satisfaction and appreciation at the way the police responded to the situation and their alertness resulted in the detection of a live bomb in Dilsukhnagar on Saturday night. “The cabinet congratulated the police on this account,” he said.
He denied that the twin blasts occured due to failure of intelligence wings of the state and city police who could not anticipate this incident after the bomb blast at historic Mecca Masjid. “Most of the time, the international terrorist organisations are responsible for such incidents. The state government definitely does not have the wherewithal to go into this sort of intelligence operations,” he said. A steady stream of politicians and VIPs into the city to visit the blast sites and meet the victims families kept the city police on their toes. Among the visitors were Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil, Mrs Renuka Choudary, BJP leaders L K Advani and Venkaiah Naidu.
Death toll
The death toll has been put at 40, however, state home minister and police have put the toll at 43 and the number of injured at 46.
The dead include five women and two children. Thirteen of the dead have been identified as Muslims and the rest as Hindus. Seven students of Amruthavahini Engineering College of Ahmednagar in Maharashtra who had come down to the city as part of a 45-member study tour group bore the burnt of the explosion that ripped through Lumbini Park.
While three died on the spot, four others died in hospital. Their bodies were sent to Mumbai by a special flight on Sunday. Among the dead were two sisters, Sravani and Srilekha, who went with their friend Sravanti to eat chat on that fateful evening. Sravani was in her ninth class and her elder sister Srilekha was an engineering student. A shattered Sravanti, who escaped with injuries, could not stop her tears on learning that her friends were no more.

‘Nuclear threat looms large’
Bangalore, uni: A nuclear, biological or chemical threat is looming large over India and 'is very imminent' in view of use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) across the globe, according to Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) chief controller W Selwamurthy.
Stating that the country should be prepared to face such threats, he told that they need not come through state-sponsored terrorism, even a small group of people could use WMD as was done in Tokyo recently and create panic and disturbances in the society.